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Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Man, that's really cool. I love memes. I've always wanted to do some kind of a browser based meme maker I could either monetize with ads or a nominal ($10/yr) payment to remove ads.

I think Kapwing has dominated the browser market as of recently, but before that imgflip was always my go to.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

#23

For some time I wanted to make browser-based utils/time wasters in the same vein (think Photopea but simpler, or .io games) - to generate some passive income, even if it'd be $100 a month or so. Has anybody succeeded in that and can share what was key to achieve income? I mean, most savvy people have ad blockers these days.

Have a client from Turkey who is basically running all Agar.io clones today (600+ online players) in the Web. Google ranks him 1st in search results (even higher than the original Agar.io itself) for multiple competitive keywords, and he makes around €3-4k every month from ads. Target audience is mostly kids, who are looking for unblocked alternatives of their favorite browser games at school.

He keeps saying SEO is everything, and won't drop the tiniest hint about how he's achieving to top Google results.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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I loathe apps that want a subscription for such a trivial concept. Why did you choose this route over ad support or one time payment?

Forgive me, but if the market responds to OP's subscription model (and $4k/mo is not trivial), no ads is a better user experience and there is less dependency on the ad network for revenue. It's typically much harder to acquire new users than retain current users = subscription model allows you to monetize your userbase over a broader period of time (let's say $5/mo * 6 mo = $30) to a value that would likely be cost-…

the one time payment for a multi year support of software doesn't grow businesses. We just don't see the business of releasing a new version of the same software every two years with some new features and minor refresh, though it still done. It might support a small dev, but you need recurring revenue and subscriptions and ways to increase the ARPU to grow a real business.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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post #7

I loathe apps that want a subscription for such a trivial concept. Why did you choose this route over ad support or one time payment?

1. You charge what people are willing to pay, not how much your product is worth. 2. When it's a subscription as a customer you have more trust that it will continue working. When it's a one time purchase, who knows how long it will last.

True, with #1 this is pedantic but it could be restated as the worth of your product is what people are willing to pay.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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post #24

What did you do to reach so many users? How did you grow it?

I have been building the app for many years now. In the beginning I spent money mostly on instagram and facebook ads. I had pretty decent results on this, and could get installs for around 20-30 cents. However, those users also trashed my app in comments and didn't convert to paying users. Later I moved to App Store ads, it costs a bit more for the downloads, but the users convert much better. I am starting to think of going back and giving IG ads a shot though.

Edit: forgot to mention, I also spent quite a bit of time improving app store ranking, which contributes significantly to getting more downloads and customers.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

#30

Where do most of your customers come from? Any typical profiles? Quite impressive that you could do this with a meme creator!

Thank you! The early users came from me buying instagram ads, and recent users are primarily from App Store ads. Amazingly there is some organic traffic as well. I spent a lot of time trying to improve my app store ranking, and that makes a HUGE difference for getting new customers. If you can rank in the top 3 for a couple of important keywords, you can do really well.
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